CVE-2025-9709

high

Description

On-Chip Debug and Test Interface With Improper Access Control and Improper Protection against Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EM-FI) in Nordic Semiconductor nRF52810 allow attacker to perform EM Fault Injection and bypass APPROTECT at runtime, requiring the least amount of modification to the hardware system possible.

References

https://www.toreon.com/cve-2025-9709-major-vulnerability-in-common-chip/

https://raelize.com/upload/research/2025/Dartmouth_202505_False-Injections-Tales-of-Physics-Misconceptions-and-Weird-Machines_v1.1.pdf

https://raelize.com/upload/research/2022/No_Hat_2022_-_Glitching_devices_for_code_execution_v1.1.pdf

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-27211

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-09-05

Updated: 2025-09-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0003